** FILE ** In this June 27, 2001, file photo, NBA Commissioner David Stern, left, congratulates Seton Hall's Eddie Griffin after he was chosen as the seventh draft pick in the first round of the the 2001 NBA Draft in New York. Griffin was 25 when he died last week in a gruesome collision with a moving freight train, leading those who knew him to wonder how someone who stood with Stern on draft day only six years ago could fall so far so fast? But his story was sadly redundant: Everybody wanted to help Eddie Griffin, who tried but could not help himself. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)